🇫🇷 Participants of a protest march have tried to break through to the prefecture of Nanterre, a Sputnik correspondent reports, adding that police are using tear gas.

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❗️Russian MoD briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️Four Ukrainian attacks were successfully repelled in the Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republics. Ukrainian losses amounted to up to 530 troops killed and wounded, one tank, two infantry fighting vehicles, one Msta-B and one D-20 howitzer, as well as one ammunition depot;

▪️In the Krasny Liman direction, a Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group was neutralized. Russian forces destroyed up to 65 Ukrainian troops, two armored fighting vehicles, two pick-up trucks, two D-30 howitzers, and two Gvozdika self-propelled howitzers;

▪️In the Zaporozhye direction, Ukrainian losses amounted to up to 135 troops, two armored fighting vehicles, three D-20 howitzers, one Msta-B and one D-30 howitzer, as well as one Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer;

▪️In the Kupyansk direction, more than 25 Ukrainian troops, one Akatsiya self-propelled howitzer, one D-30 howitzer, and one Grad MLRS were eliminated;

▪️In the Kherson direction, up to 40 Ukrainian servicemen, six motor vehicles, and one Msta-B howitzer were neutralized, as well as an ammunition depot;

▪️An ammunition depot was hit in the Donetsk People's Republic;

▪️Two US-made AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radar stations were destroyed in the Kharkov region and Donetsk People's Republic;

▪️According to updated information, as a result of a precision strike on June 27 in Kramatorsk, two generals participating in a staff meeting, up to 50 Ukrainian officers, as well as 20 foreign mercenaries and military advisers were eliminated;

▪️Russian air defense forces shot down two HIMARS missiles, one HARM anti-radiation missile, and 11 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the Kharkov region, Donetsk People's Republic, Lugansk People's Republic, and Kherson region.

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US presidential candidate Mike Pence has arrived in Kiev on an unannounced visit. American media outlets report that he met with Volodymyr Zelensky. Pence is the first Republican presidential candidate to pay such a visit during the campaign.

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🇷🇺📹 Vladimir Putin checks out Russian-made gaming table for e-sports at Agency for Strategic Initiatives expo in Moscow

Previously, the Russian president revealed whether he is a gaming connoisseur or not.

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🗣️”I think there is a deeper dissatisfaction with the status quo and with governing authority and power structure. I mean, the police are a symbol of the power structure and the governing elite. And when there is a loss of legitimacy of the police often they can relate to loss of legitimacy of the entire structure”: Managing editor of CovertAction Magazine and author Jeremy Kuzmarov told Sputnik about the protests that erupted in Nanterre, France.

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🎥 Ka-52 'Alligator' helicopter in action (video courtesy from Russian MoD)

The crew of a Ka-52 reconnaissance-strike helicopter destroyed two Ukrainian armored vehicles with guided missile strikes.

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You can only pick two people in this photo taken today in Kiev for the best comedy duo ever. Who would you choose?

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🗣️”It's just a horror show and it's a mockery of justice. And the trial is going to drag out over 12 or 15-year period. I mean, the United States was supposed to be a nation founded on laws. And this is just this terrible. The CIA is involved the cover-up”: Managing editor of the CovertAction Magazine and author Jeremy Kuzmarov has told Sputnik about the hearing process for two of the last Guantanamo Bay detainees

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🔺Another BRICS applicant: Nicaragua is interested in joining the organization to promote a multipolar world
🔺Admitting the fact? The European Council on Foreign Relations warns that the European Union is being vassalized by the United States
🔺Unilateral sanctions imposed by Washington are the key stumbling block to closer ties between the two rivals, Beijing claims

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Russian Foreign Ministry condemns Quran burning in Sweden

There may be catastrophic consequences if incidents such as the recent burning of a Quran in Sweden go unpunished, the special representative of the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry on cooperation in the field of observance of the right to freedom of religion, Gennady Askoldovich, has warned.

He called on the international community to denounce similar violations of religious rights and to prevent the rise of religious radicalism.

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🌍 Africa Aspires to De-Dollarization to Reduce Exposure to 'US Manipulation', Expert Says

African countries are eager to join the global trend of ditching the US dollar to escape from Washington using the greenback as a tool of manipulation, Dr Frederick Golooba-Mutebi, Ugandan independent researcher and political scientist told Sputnik Africa

💬 Africa is heading towards a multipolar world, where there will be no room for economic manipulation by the US, which "dictates conditions to countries, and if they are not willing, punishes them by imposing all kinds of sanctions, including financial ones," according to the expert

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Kalashnikov’s camouflage cloak for tanks

The NATO-Russia proxy conflict in Ukraine has proven that the principles of tank warfare developed during the Second World War and perfected during the Cold War remain as relevant as ever, with updates to tactics made largely to account for new technologies, among them radar-absorbent materials.

What is it and how does it work? What fueled creation of radar-absorbent materials?

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Beijing calls on US, Japan, Philippines to stop undermining China's sovereignty, interests

The US, the Philippines, and Japan held their first security advisers' meeting in Tokyo on June 16, agreeing to bolster their collective defense and security capabilities to maintain peace in the Indo-Pacific amid China's military activities in the South and East China Seas.

China's Defense Ministry has urged countries in the region to avoid actions that endanger themselves while benefiting others, and restated its commitment to resolving disputes through consultation.

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🇺🇸 Americans maintain historic low in national pride, poll finds

A new Gallup poll found that only 39% of US adults say they are “extremely proud” of their nationality - that’s up just 1% from last year’s record low of 38%.

Meanwhile, 28% reported being “very proud” of being American while 22% noted being “moderately proud,” and just 7% said they were “only a little” proud. Another 4% of respondents admitted they weren't proud “at all” of their US citizenship.

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🇺🇸 US OKs possible sale of 30mm ammunition, equipment to Taiwan worth $440mln

Taiwan's request includes 30mm high-explosive incendiary tracer rounds, multi-function ammunition and training rounds, spare parts for wheeled vehicles, weapons and other related equipment.

The DSCA said the proposed sale aims to "support the foreign policy and national security objectives of the US" and added that the sale will "not alter the basic military balance in the region."

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🇮🇷🇸🇪 Iran's Foreign Ministry says summoned Sweden's charge d'affaires over Quran burning

Majid Nili Ahmadabadi, the head of the ministry’s Western Europe Department, described Sweden’s “silence and passive behavior” as “encouraging the violators of one of the fundamental and obvious principles of human rights, i.e. the principle of respect for religious and mountainous values.”

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